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T1Dmama · 11/07/2025 00:30

Misogamy.

and yes it is still very much excepted in modern day society.,., in fact I’d say it’s getting worse again with the current teens!

leicester66 · 11/07/2025 00:46

@Wisterical what do you think should happen to with inheritance then what a stupid comment! Just because you probably won’t inherit

Yassnass134 · 11/07/2025 00:48

The genocide of palestinians

ThoraHeard · 11/07/2025 00:51

Abortion

BrokenWingsCantFly · 11/07/2025 01:14

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Timetodomything · 11/07/2025 01:30

I second - selling council houses and
- children wearing dark coats as part of school uniform when they need to be seen in traffic

BeanQuisine · 11/07/2025 01:41

Death.

We all know that we and all our loved ones are going to die, but we're not expected to be upset about that or even regard it as a shabby state of affairs.

LoopyLoo1991 · 11/07/2025 02:24

Weedhog · 10/07/2025 23:20

the weirdest thing that is taken as normal? the election of an idiot to POTUS

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Oh yes. And the types that support him go insane at you is you dare to disparage him! So have the meme of Scottish insults directed at him - the Cockwomble & Mangled Apricot Hellbeast one - handy or creative descriptions to cut & paste & watch them explode!
My boss came up with a brilliant one 'narcissistic moronic buffoon of a shaved orange Orangutan 🦧 occupying the Oval Office' 🤣🤣🤣

KiriG · 11/07/2025 02:46

True but then it does make sense from an evolutionary point that we should (as a social species) look after genetic relatives and of course those who we may not be genetically related to but can also help with the survival of children (like a mother in law).

I guess the social relationships needed for survival way back for our ancestors have remained habit.

This was a reply to us being expected to have relationships with relatives we don’t like but I can’t copy this to paste back as ‚quote‘

KiriG · 11/07/2025 02:51

Daisyvodka · 09/07/2025 16:10

People being rude to you, expecting you to want them in your life despite how they treat you or expecting you to do things for them under the guise of 'but we are family' because a while ago a certain combination of people had sex which made you blood related and therefore they are owed a place in your life rather than it being earned.

Its pretty weird when you think about it.
Two people decided to shag and many years later you are expected to sit at Aunt Hildas birthday party despite the fact she's called you fat since you were six.

And there are people out there who call you selfish if you go 'no contact' with family, despite the fact im 'no contact' with several billion strangers - people ive not met who I dont have a relationship with. You wouldn't get judged for not wanting to speak to your ex, someone you actively chose to date and have in your life. Yet its selfish to not want contact with someone you are societally forced to interact with just because two people decided they fancied a shag??? Its so weird when you think about it.

True but then it does make sense from an evolutionary point that we should (as a social species) look after genetic relatives and of course those who we may not be genetically related to but can also help with the survival of children (like a mother in law).

I guess a behaviour that helped our ancestors survive has become habit

KiriG · 11/07/2025 02:59

School.

As Social groups formed into villages, it was natural for children to be around family and help at home and work, as well as learn through play. Sending them to school to all learn the same regardless of interests and judging them on targets that may not be appropriate for the child.

Then all having approximately the same school holidays and people paying loads extra to go to busy places. Kinda weird I think

Plasticwaste · 11/07/2025 03:17

Belgium.

MarxistMags · 11/07/2025 03:32

Falling over drunk.

wineosaurusrex · 11/07/2025 04:43

Hothothot25 · 09/07/2025 16:07

Botox and filler - after a few years of both women start to look the same, and their age is difficult to predict, the only thing you can definately tell is that they've had work. My SIL is 50 but if I didn't know her I'd guess anything between 40 and 60, with fillers and botox. She sees a 40 year old face when she looks in the mirror.

She has offered me the name of her 'guy', she thinks I could afford it if I cut down spending in other areas.

😂😂😂 This just isn't true. People who don't want botox always try to convince themselves of this.

wineosaurusrex · 11/07/2025 04:43

Yassnass134 · 11/07/2025 00:48

The genocide of palestinians

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I came on to say this.

Hedgehogbrown · 11/07/2025 04:51

Tryonemoretime · 10/07/2025 20:14

@WhineAndWine1
I'm so sorry that your ex cheated on you. That's absolutely appalling and must have been traumatising when you realised that he'd cheated on you when you were particularly vulnerable. But should his disgraceful action result in the death of another vulnerable person? It's done now, and understandable because your head must have been all over the place. Again - I'm so sorry.
But would like to add a question...how often does adoption result in trauma for the child? I've known a few adopted children - none of whom are traumatised by it. My husband and his sister had a wonderful upbringing by their adoptive parents. They were loved and cherished by two wonderful people who were so grateful to have the children they couldn't have naturally. Of course, that isn't always the case. But even naturally conceived children aren't always loved by their biological parents.

Adoption trauma is a very well researched and robust aspect of psychology. A child can be adopted by the most loving parents in the world and the trauma from being taken from their Mother is very much real and will manifest in different ways. To deny it exists is to do a disservice to all the adopted people in the world and their real suffering. Thinking it is ok to take a baby from it's Mother, with no consequences for either of them is how they though when they took babies off women in the 50s. We have luckily moved on since then. If you know someone who has adopted children recently, they will have been informed about adoption trauma because they need to know in order to support the child.

Hedgehogbrown · 11/07/2025 04:54

I've got one. Pregnancy due dates. Total bollocks.

Hedgehogbrown · 11/07/2025 05:00

ScruffyTrouserMindFlip · 09/07/2025 18:32

Mothers being expected to be away from their children, and even little babies, for most of the day, almost every day.

Yes this. It's insane. No one is acknowledging that families used to live on 1 income, and life has gotten worse in this regard. Why aren't people up in arms?

LillyPJ · 11/07/2025 05:49

Hedgehogbrown · 11/07/2025 05:00

Yes this. It's insane. No one is acknowledging that families used to live on 1 income, and life has gotten worse in this regard. Why aren't people up in arms?

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I agree. And people seem to think they are poorer nowadays and 2 incomes are necessary. But when we managed on one (very low) income when the DC were young, we didn't have so many of today's conveniences - no central heating, phone (landline or mobile), automatic washing machine, fridge, computer etc. Nobody paid to have their nails or eyebrows done, or walked around with takeaway coffees. There is more to spend money on now and people -quite reasonably - expect more. It would be strange, if not impossible, to try to live without those conveniences now in this society (though obviously many people around the world do).

charlieandjenna · 11/07/2025 06:16

UnfashionableArtex · 09/07/2025 15:58

@Strobbery It's a con, didn't anyone tell you? There is no real choice for most of us. In the before times, we had to do all the child rearing, housekeeping stuff. We weren't able to work like men could. Now we HAVE to do employment outside of the home, and often most/all of the other stuff too. We aren't able to opt out if we wish to.

There is no "we". Women are not a homogeneous group when it comes to politics or most other things.

At no point did I say women should be kept at home and not allowed to work. As you well know. Go and jump down somebody else's throat.

Absolutely this!

SouthernNights59 · 11/07/2025 06:17

Utterlyconfusednow · 09/07/2025 18:26

They are literally little bombs aren’t they!

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Having heard and seen what happens when idiots put lighted fireworks into a letterbox (not in the UK, letterboxes are on the street), yes they literally are!

SouthernNights59 · 11/07/2025 06:45

MadisonAvenue · 09/07/2025 23:43

Not just the cost but the fact that there’s such a long delay between the death and the funeral.

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Well yes, that is weird. Other countries manage to arrange funerals without a long delay.

Pigmoondotcom · 11/07/2025 06:48

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 09/07/2025 15:51

This, particularly childbirth.

You give birth, quite often a lengthy and bloody process that leaves you feeling as though you've been run over by a truck (or, in the case of cs, having major abdominal surgery) - and then someone hands you this totally dependant creature and says 'well done, here, now go and get no sleep for the next five years. Best of luck with your recovery!'

That's how it felt to me anyway.

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Same, but without the ‘best of luck with your recovery’.

Joanderic · 11/07/2025 07:03

Boiling lobsters and other crustaceans alive.

SouthernNights59 · 11/07/2025 07:04

To typically spend 37 hours a week in work

If you had lived in earlier times you would have been spending more hours than that in work.

I'm astonished at how little history people know.